WTO Disputes

The consultations requests in the China - Financial Information Services dispute are now available: EC request and U.S. request.  GATS claims (XVI, XVII and XVIII) and China's protocol of accession are the focus, but there is also a TRIPS claim in the EC request.  Here's

It has been a while since we talked about the Canada-EU seals dispute at the WTO (see here, here and here).  It's not clear to me where this is all going, but here is the latest: The European Commission's ambassador to Canada says efforts are being

The Panel in the China - Auto Parts case has just issued the interim report. According to several sources, China lost the case. This is rather unsurprising as the legal issues involved in the case are relatively simple. The more interesting question, however, is how China would react to its

Many of this blog's readers are probably familiar with the old GATT Thailand - Cigarettes dispute.  It looks like we might be headed for a (somewhat) similar dispute at the WTO.  From an article published just in advance of the WTO complaint: The Philippine government plans to elevate

We've already discussed the DSU Article 22.6 Gambling arbitration.  Now it looks like we are headed for a GATS Article XXI arbitration: Antigua has asked the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to arbitrate in a dispute over gambling with the United States, its lawyer in the case said

As mentioned a couple months ago, some countries had expressed concerns that China was placing restrictions on foreign providers of news-related financial information services.  Things seem to be heating up.  As reported by the AP: The United States has told China to get serious about loosening restrictions on foreign news

Over at Eyes on Trade, Todd Tucker had this to say in reaction to the Brazil - Tyres decision: No one would say that Brazil's enviro policy was the perfect solution to the problem. But many, many environmental policies are that imperfect. Perhaps due to other influences in